Studs Terkel Quotes
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?
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On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.